MLS Offseason Thread (OLAS Danny Mwanga to Colorado?)

(Posted on 12/3/12 at 3:19 pm)

Any discussion about trades, signings, coaching changes can happen here.

Journeyman defender Kosuke Kimura is heading to New York today after Portland traded him and a second round draft pick to the Red Bulls for cash and the HGP rights to Bryan Gallego, one of new Portland HC Caleb Porter's best defenders from the Akron team he just left. Also worth noting is that NYRB doesn't have their new HC yet, but they're making deals.

quote:Less than a year after being traded away from the team he spent two years starring for, Sebastien LeToux is one his way back to the Philadelphia Union.

The New York Red Bulls have traded LeToux to the Philadelphia Union for allocation money and the rights to a player to be named later, sources with knowledge of the trade confirmed to SBI on Thursday. The trade came the same day the Red Bulls made a Bona Fide offer to LeToux to secure his MLS rights, which paved the way for the trade.

LeToux returns to the Union after spending time with the Vancouver Whitecaps and Red Bulls in 2012. Traded from the Union to the Whitecaps for allocation money at the start of the 2011 season, LeToux will now return to a Union side where he scored 25 goals over the course of the 2010 and 2011 seasons.

It is rumored that the Portland Timbers and Toronto FC have agreed to a deal which would see the Timbers send their third overall SuperDraft pick to the Canadian side in exchange for forward Ryan Johnson and goalkeeper Milos Kocic.